Anniversary Dinner at Resa's


Saturday night I took Linda to Resa's Prime Steakhouse on FM1960. We had been there before and really loved it. This time we had a slightly different experience.

The first time we went our waiter actually remembered Linda from high school. He was great and I think he gave us some extra special treatment that we appreciated and it showed in his tip.

This time the waiter was nice enough. He chatted with us briefly while opening a bottle of Rodney Strong Cabernet and took our order. He brought our shrimp cocktail and delivered the huge steak knives we would use for our steaks. Linda and I both ordered the Filet Mignon, she the 6 oz., me the 12oz. and just as we started to dig in a huge wasp landed on the corner of the table right between me and Linda.

 

This is where I need to tell you about my love of kung fu movies and how I called upon that kung fu knowledge from watching those movies and did what any kung fu master would have done...Well first I said a little loudly, "holy shit, a wasp" then the kung fu master took over as I grabbed my huge steak knife and sliced the wasp in half.

 

I calmly called to a waiter that was walking by and asked him to get our waiter. This guy asked if there was a problem so I mentioned the wasp and he promptly called a bus boy over to give me a napkin to wrap up the pieces. Eventually the manager came over and to ask how we were and said that the most important thing was that we were safe, said something about a recent fumigation then almost ran away.

Our waiter checked on us a little while after that. We were a little worried since we have had other experiences where a dining experience went bad and the waiter was afraid to come back to our table. This guy took the possibility of a pissed off customer fairly well and since the he paid attention and somehow figured out that this was our wedding anniversary dinner he gave us a free desert so he got a decent tip. I was hoping that we would get our bottle of wine free due to the wasp but was not surprised considering the managers demeanor.

After we finished our steaks, potatoes au gratin, bread pudding and coffee we paid the bill and got up to leave when I noticed that there was not one employee up front near the door. When we arrived and up until 5 minutes before we left the manager would walk from the front reception area, past us to a back dining room and back about every 5 minutes or so. I had also seen at least 3 or 4 waiters hanging around near the front door. Funny that when we left no one was around.

The food is good but for a $119 meal you expect no flying pests. Sometimes things happen, I know. They just need to kiss a little more butt when it does.

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Submitted by: gtgillis / 2004-11-03
Category: Miscellany

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